Our New House

Wow, it has been a REALLY long time since our last post.  We have been completely consumed in preparing our new house for habitation.  Now that we are moved in, and a lot of boxes have been unpacked, it is starting to look like a home.

Here are some pictures.  We will try to do better about new posts in future. :)

Hooray!!!

We finally heard back on our offer to purchase a home.  Our offer has been accepted!!!  We're hoping to close on the 16th of March and move in sometime that week.  We are so excited!  We'll post pictures once we get kinda settled.

Not much new....

Not much new is going on with our family.  Daddy is still going to school and the kids and mommy are still playing at home and going to the library weekly.  We've made an offer on a house, a couple of weeks ago, and we're still waiting to hear back from the bank about the home, which is currently under a "Short Sale".

Here are some pictures of some of our recent fun.

We're dancing!

Zak and I are taking a ballroom dance class through our city's community ed program. It's an eight week course where we are going to learn four dances; swing, foxtrot, waltz, and cha cha. We had our first class this week where we started learning swing. It was a lot of fun! Kevin is graciously agreed to babysit for us during our classes. We can't wait until our next class!

The kids are doing great as well. Mommy and the kids went to the library again today for the fun classes they offer for young kids. Afterwards, we went to Wendy's for chicken nuggets, hamburgers, and french fries. All the way there (and it was a considerable distance due to long overdue construction) "Where's Wendy's house?" :) "No Lizzy, it's not a person's house, it's a restaurant like 'McDonald's' but it's called 'Wendy's'" "Oh....". Then, once we were seating and getting our food situated, Lizzy started in again, "Wendy can sit right here. Where's Wendy?" and she proceeded to gaze about the room looking for "Wendy". I kept explaining to her, but I still don't think she fully understood. :)

Ervin is growing bigger and more grown-up every day. Each day he walks a little bit steadier, and a little bit further. Every day he spouts out a few new words such as; "twelve" (we are always talking about when the big hand of the clock gets to the clock then it will be time to do a certain thing), "ney" and "moo" (like what horses and cows say), "cheese", "drink", "juice", "milk", "tv", and most importantly "Blue's Clues" (his new favorite show).

Daddy is still working hard a going to school at night. He is still enjoying his classes and his instructors. We miss him while he is gone but can usually wait up for him to come home before going to bed.

Happy New Year

What a whirlwind of holidays!

We had a great New Year's Eve party at our house. We made BBQ pork sandwhiches, which Ervin devoured, then Ervin went down for night-nights. We also had banana splits which Grandma provided. For our New Year's Eve festivities we played fun new games. Zak bought a game at Funfinity called The T-Shirt Game. the object of the game is to choose one of your three Slogan cards that will best match the picture on the T-Shirt card. The Slogan cards are shuffled and the judge picks which card they think best fits the T-Shirt and the person who picked that particular Slogan earns points. It was very fun and crazy! Lots and lots of laughing! We also played Wacky Six, which is a crazy, fast-paced card game! We also played Swipe, which is the dice game Robert got in his Christmas stocking from Santa. You roll dice and with each roll you can get more dice or more chips from the center, the goal is to win the most chips. But also with each roll you can swipe dice or chips from other players. It's a simple game but the tides can change quickly!

And now we're back to our originally scheduled lives. Zak begins school again today. He's taking 3 night classes, each class is one day a week. He is very excited. Ervin was pretty upset to lose his favorite person this morning to go to work, but hopefully mommy can keep him entertained while daddy is away.